Submissions

The LITRG has recently responded to the Director of Labour Market Enforcement’s consultation document on his 2018/19 strategy, welcoming the Director's arrival and approach, and explaining that labour market exploitation very often manifests itself in problems with tax and National Insurance (NIC). We describe some of the tax and NIC geared exploitation that we are aware of and tell...

The LITRG welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) consultation on pension transfer adivce as we are concerned that a future mis-selling problem could arise in this area, given that people may be attracted by the selling points of accessing pension freedom which they cannot do from a defined benefit (DB) scheme. Our response highlights the difficulties of e...

We welcome the opportunity to respond to the call for evidence on the taxation of employee expenses. There have been major changes in the labour market in recent years, and these days, the low-paid are less and less likely to have their employment expenses paid or reimbursed by their employers. We explain to HM Treasury that any tax relief on their unreimbursed expenses is therefore ver...